Not trying to start an argument here but you sound very far removed from individual contributors, so maybe from your point of view it would simply look like adding it to a pile. More important than adding it to a pile is to make sure there's systems in place to make sure OSs are patched. You wouldn't be complaining to the IT/sysadmin guy about your servers' vulnerability or patching schedules, you'd be talking to your cybersec department who'd have oversight. And if there's a breach and your only defense is "I added it to the IT guys pile", 100% you are getting fired as well.

I get your point, but capitalism is about doing the least amount of work to maximize your pay. And if the owners (who have the most skin ulin the game) don't care about infrastructure then why should anyone else?

No, it doesn't... because as I said, you have your needs (food, shelter, good car, nice place to live) met... you wouldn't be talking like this if your place was a dump or you ate the cheapes shit on the market (cuz that's what you can afford).

The important part that @ramble81@lemm.ee is focusing on is that your mindset on how you approach these challenges is incredibly unprofessional.

I know it is.

Now, ask me why that is.

The professional thing to do is to decouple your feelings of how you're being paid from individual tasks or duties that are expected of you. "I'm not paid enough to deal with this" should be limited to tasks outside of your scope of work.

Lol 😂, no one has actually told me to keep the servers up to date, the only thing I was ever told was "keep shit running". I've done updates on my own incentive, since I'm the senior IT engineer in the company. When things turn to shit after an update, hey, I'm rolling back a snapshot, I did not sign up for this 🙌.

And that is basically it 🤷... I get the same salary regardless if I do them or not. After a few failed ones, I just gave up. F it, not worth the time or the effort.

If you're ultimately not paid enough to do your job, complaining about individual tasks that are part of your job being bnove your paygrade is just saying you aren't willing to do your job.

Nope, I'm saying "Fuck you, pay me!".

You think they care about updates and security? I've mentioned it a few times at meetings... "yeah, we'll talk about that later". OK 🤷. They obviously have no idea how fucked up things can get if you're not up to date regarding security... but hey, they have been warned more than a few times 🤷.

What you need to do regarding your workload is have a conversation with your manager/superior about prioritization. You say "hey, I have this this this and this that need to get done right now and I can't realistically do them all, what do you want me to prioritize and deprioritize" and if something important hasn't been given priority in a long time (such as patches) you need to then push back and say "we haven't been able to apply security patches in quite a while, I think we should reprioritize this so we can put some time into patching this week" this is how you manage a gigantic workload is by shifting priorities. The longer important maintenance tasks are ignored, the larger the impact and the harder it will be to complete the tasks

🤦... dude, you really have no idea where I live 😂🤣😂... otherwise you wouldn't be saying this.

Things have been said more than once... I have asked, have pleeded for more personel... deaf ears. I have put it in writing, no use. Fine, then I just keep things running and that's basically it 🤷.

Oh, and regarding workload, I already prioritize. The priority is to keep shit running, not to be up to date (obviously)... so, I just keep things running.

No no no, I am not getting promoted anyway... no promotions here. No one ever gets promoted, you don't get bonuses, you don't get overhours pay, you don't get raise... so why bother 🤷.